Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-boosters (113 mails)

[Robert Lihm <rlihm@xxxxxxx>]

On 05.03.2010, at 13:40, Frank Sundermeyer wrote:

> On Thursday 04 March 2010 15:53:36 Stephan Kulow wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > But you agree that creating mockups alone won't help you finish the  
> > goal
> > of a theme that works for all applications, right? So I think the  
> > approach
> > to "define something, try it, redefine it, try it again, redefine  
> > it, try
> > it again till it works" is a good one - it just needs to be clear  
> > that all
> > our porting efforts are part of the great "define a common theme"  
> > goal and
> > to me it is.
>
> as long as you do not lose sight of this goal, everything is fine.  
> We had the
> same goal last time, but somehow lost it on the way and I think it's  
> Robert's
> fear that it will happen again. Having set up and maintained the  
> "old" theme
> together with Robert I am sharing his fears.
>
> The problem I see with the current approach is as follows: Look at  
> the wiki,
> or connect, for example. The skin is in use (connect) or can already  
> be used
> (wiki.o.o) and it looks like the skin development is in a pretty  
> advanced
> state (meaning far more advanced than a simple mockup). Having gone  
> this far
> makes it pretty hard to say at a given point in the future: OK, nice  
> work, but
> now that the templates and guidelines are ready, please start from  
> scratch
> (and that is basically what you have to do, because doing diffs is  
> almost
> impossible). On the one hand the person having done the skin is less  
> motivated
> to start over and on the other hand it's hard to convince his  
> manager that the
> same work has to be done again.

Precisely! Thank you Frank :-)

Robert

> Perhaps it's different this time, because you boosters are solely  
> dedicated to
> openSUSE - something we didn't have last time.
>
> --
> Regards
>        Frank
>
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